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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-12-07
W0MAN'S WORLD.
PLEASANT LITERATURE FOR
FEMININE READERS.
Coiffurcs of the Day.

Coiffurcs of the Day.
The low coil of hair on the neck is
only for morning and street wear.
Coiffures is the most distinguishing
characteristic of the present fashion.
The pointed bang, which has been so
trying to many faces, is now worn only
by school girls.
The latest fashions from Paris show a
French twist, with the hair knotted and
twisted high on the head.
Fluffy bangs are decidedly more be-
coming than the pointed bangs and arc
cut by the hairdresser in such way that
the straightest hair will look fluffy.
The most popular style here is the
Galatea, introduced by Mrs. Langtry.
In this coiffurc the hair is neither high
nor low, but just on the crown of the
head, loopcd, while the ends are curled.
This style is most successfully carried out
with false hair, as so few ladies have
natural wave.-Ne,o York World
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FOREIGN.

The French Ministry, being defeated in the
Chamber of Deputies on the question of its
domestic policy, has resigned. President
Grevy accepted the resignation of his Minis
ters, with the request that they continue in
office until new Cabinet could be formed.
OWING to the illness of the German Crown
Prince, his son, Prince William, will, by COM
mand of the Emperor, represent his father at
all future State ceremonies and receptions.
RUSSIA is massing 100000 soldiers on the
German and Austrian frontiers
In recent raids upon Nihilists in Russia 1870
persons were arrested. Nine officers under
arrest committed suicide
The Liverpool steamship Douro has been
wrecked off Cape Finisterre. Thirteen per-
sons were drowned.
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NEWSY GLEANINGS.

CONNECTICUT has eleven living centena
rians.
THE cattle industry of the United States
represents s., 200, ,09O,0O0
ONO celebrates its centennial by holding
100 farmers institutes the coming year.
PROFESSOR CUsHMAN has unearthed city
and 1000 skeletons in Southern Arizona.
4 COMPANY has been organized in New
York City to insure merchants against bad
lebtS.
CHICAGO gains 10000 in population
through the annexation Of the Hyde Park
suburb.
AT Gardner, Mo-, at recent wedding the
groom was but nineteen years Of age, while
his bride was sixty.
A MAMMoUTH cave containing thousands of
tons OF zinc ore has been discovered in the
town of Shullsburg, Wis
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A COttOn.Picking Crow.

A farmer OF Mccklenburg County, N.
c., owns lame crow which goes rcgu-
larlv to the Gotten field and picks as
much in a day as any of the human pick
ers. With its beak it twists the cotton
out, and puts it in a bag. The owner OF
this truly rare bird, as well as the neigh
bors, declare that the statement is true
in every particular. Minneapolis 7rt-
EuHe
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THE NATIONS GROWTH.
Facts About the COuntry's Pro
gress in Twenty Years.
Figures Relative to the Corn,
Cotton and Wheat Crops.

1t requires facts and figures to enable one
fully to comprehend the wonderful growth
of this country during the past twenty years,
says New York financial paper. The rail
road mileage of the United States has been
doubled in about twelve years. At the
close of the current year the total
number of miles of railroad in the country
will be about 100000; at the beginning of
1858 it was less than &c, 100 miles During the
same time, the population of the country has
increased from about 81, 90 ),00) to somewhat
more than &c, ,0;0, 0JJ. The wheat, corn and cot
ton crops are among the most important pro-
duced in this country 1t is true that very little
corn is exported as corn, but after being con.
verted into cattle, hogs, whiskey, etc, it
furnishes part of our exports. In the follow
ing table is shown the number Of bushels of
wheat and corn and the number of bales of
cotton raised each year during the
past twenty years, beginning with 1865,
and also the total number of acres planted to
the three crops named, except for 1868; we
are not in possession of the figures giving the
cotton acreage for that year. The total area
planted to corn and wheat that year
amounted to 50, 341 ,331S acres.
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NEWPORT is becoming more and moro
place for the very wealthy. People
with incomes of $4,000 to $4,000 a
year can no longer make show there
and participate in fashionable gayety.
An income of $4,000 even does not
enable one to meet the exacting de-
mands of the American Vanity Fair.
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GREAT FOREST FIRES.
The Banks of the Mississippi Ablaze
for Hundreds of Miles.

for Hundreds of Miles.
Forest fires have been raging for hundreds
of miles along the lower Mississippi. Many
cotton gin houses in Crttenden County, Ar
kansas, and in the counties of Mississippi
which border the river, have been burned.
Steamers could not run at night owing to the
dense smoke which prevailed from Vicksburg
to point lao miles above Memphis, GJO miles.
Fires were burning everywhere within this
territory and there was no immediate pros
poets of rain. Travel by rail was also OBJ
Structed from these causes. Several trestles
on the Kansas City Road were destroyed, and
communication with ST. Louis was made via
Forest City, Ark. The only escape promised
could come from rain, and in many churches
prayers were offered that showers might fall
and the destruction CEASE.
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SILK culture is now being promoted in Cal
ifornia by two organizations, the Silk Gull
ture Society. with fund Of So 900 appropri.
ated by the Unitel States Government, and
the State Board of Silk Culture, with an ap
Dropriation from the State of California
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The expense of living has greatly IN
creased in Washington, and the high
rents are troubling many Congressman
who have only their salaries to depend
upon. Houses in the fashionable Sec
ton rent for from 5000 to $4,000 a
year, and the 5000 houses ore, as
rule, little ones of six or eight rooms.
Provisions are plenty, but prices are
hiph.
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GEN. BENJAMIN T. BUTLER has for
years been a close student of Shak-
speare. and has large acquaintance
among Shakspearean scholars. To a
New York correspondent Gen. Butler
said the other day, in relation to Mr..
Donnelly's shakspearean theories: Il
am very greatly interested in the mat
ter of the authorship of the so-called
Shakespeare plays, and am we'll &C.
quainted with Mr.. Donnelly. I knew
him twenty years ago in Congress, and
I have read his books. Long before 1
ever saw him, however, I became thor
oughly convinced that Bacon was the
author of the plays. I am firm be-
lever in the Baconian theory. The
author of the plays had access to an
enormous library, and his research into
all languages was amazing. Shak-
speare was low fellow. Bacon says
somewhere that it will all come out
some day. As Donnelly says, it is
highly probable that Bacon ran a
cipher through his works. He delight
ed in ciphers and everybody used them
in his day. All messages between
courts were in cipher. 1t is very rea on
able to believe that Bacon inserted a
cipher in his play. Everything else
points logically to such conclusion,
and it remains only to discover the key
to this to establish beyond question
Bacon's claims. You suggest that either
one of the three things must be true:
Cd That Donnelly is right, (2) that he
has made a mistake and is deceived, OF
(3) that he is q fraud. Now, I know
personally that the latter is not the
case. Mr. Donnelly is perfectly honest.
I also know that he is too thorough
and careful to make mistake. That
leaves the first suggestion, which is
right. I feel full confidence that MIR.
Dounelly has discovered the true
cipher, and will prove all that he
claims, and that he will establish Ba-
cons undisputed authorship to the
Shakspearean plays"
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THE fire losses in the United States and
Canada in October were s9,769, 1926, against
$12 000, 900 in October, 1856, and $3.50, 900
In October, 1885. The total for the first ten
months Of the current year foots up SlO2.
95a,S25, against $95, 100000 for the CORE
spending period Of 1886.
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The Size Of Ladies' Pocket Books.

The Size Of Ladies' Pocket Books.
The evolution of the ladies' pocket
books is WONDERFUL. One year ago the
ladies were satisfied with a diminutivc
affair they could hide in the palms of
their hands. In 1868 days the pocket
book has grown to the length of good
sized healthy car of corn. Here are
illustrations showing the length the
pocketbook has grown every three
months:
Io,,or,,
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TEN years ago the Governor of Michigan
pardoned David Foster, life convict and
the old man seemed overjoyed Mt his release
Recently. how ever, he returned to the peni-
tent:nry with a request that he he allowed to
pass the remainder Of his days there.
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ANOTHER new contemplating machine is
attracting attention. This is the invention
of Mr.. Graves, and is reported to have
given satisfaction in experiments tried with
it round about Galveston, Texas.
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In the table given above the figures are for
calendar years, that is the period during
which the crops we're raised. Prior to 1868,
nearly all the wheat produced here, as well
as corn, was consumed at home. Since that
time, however, our wheat crop has become
the most important of our cereals for export.
Cotton has always held a prominent position
in this respect, so much so, in fact, that be-
fore the rebellion cotton was king OF our COM
merce. In 1868 the wheat crop was 224 .000,-
00O bushels, in 1854 it was SIP 500 D NJ bushels,
and for the current year, according to the latest
estimates it was about 450.0O00J0 bushels or
Just about double the crop of lSijS. Our
corn crop has grown from 9O6, 800, 0J0 bushels
in 1868 to ] 1896, 11G,0J0 bushels in 1885, and
about !, ,453, 900, 900 bushels for the current
year. The cotton crop of 1858 was only g.
366, 467 bales, while the latest estimates place
the present crop at $500, 600 bales, or an i'll
crease of nearly three fold.
The acreage planted to the three crops
named has been just about doubled during
the same period-it was about 1900, 600
acres less this year than in 1856
which was the largest on record 1t
will aid in forming conception of the
wonderful growth which is still in store for
us, if we remember that the State Of Texas
alone contains over 1T5, ,0U0,000 acres, while
the total acreage Of the crops referred to was
less than 13l,001,0J0 acres this year, or 49,
$4,000 less than the acreage of a single
Stota
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January 1, 1887.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-02-09
Iananese craze for Eurnnean nress

One stray crumb of comfort is that this
crazy taste for European dress can not go
very far. In country where there are no
chairs and people squat on the floor; where
no table is more than six inches high; where
boots must be removed outside the door lest
they should soil the mats, which are tables,
tablecloths, seats, couches, carpets, beds and
bedding, all in one; where grooms speed
along on foot and keep up with their masters
on horseback; where the laborer tolls half
the year in the rice fields up to his middle in
mud and water; where the artisans and
handicraftsmen work at their vocations in a
state of semi-nudity, and where the first i'm
pulse of every one, male and female, about to
exert themselves, is to cast away the upper
half of their garments-in such country,
happily, the unpicturesque, inconveDient
Philistine dress of the west can never be
naturalized, unless the whole face of social
life and manners, and even of nature herself,
be changed.-Cor. London Times.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-02-09
Life on the Texas Border.

This is the home of the donkeys, and to see
them struggling along under heavy back
loads of wood and hay is something to re-
member for long time. Away up among
the hills they go, where the Mexicans find
bunch grass, and with their long knives cut
enough in the course of an hour or two to
make a load for the donkey. The hay is
firmly fastened on the back of the animal,
and then both man and beast walk quietly
hemeward, where the load is stored away
for future use. The man sings as he walks
along, or smokes his cigarita in great content,
thinking of nothing in particular so long as
the sun is bright and the cold north wind
does not blow
Near the houses, which are built of large
bricks of mud, the women do their washing
while kneeling on the ground. They also
prepare their meals while in the same post
ure, which is a favorite one with them. They,
too, smoke their tiny cigaritas, and chatter
away with one another as contented and
happy as so many house finches- Surely it
takes very little to give happiness TO some
people, and believe the Mexicans as nation
are as happy as any ON earth. Several of the
old ladies do very nice work in the way of
making lace and fancy table covers, taking
the utmost pains with the inexpensive mate
rials they find in the tienda or store-Chihua-
hua (Tex) Cor. Chicago Times
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ITEMS OF ALL SORTS.
Olivet, D. T., has woman barber

Olivet, d. T., has a woman barber.
The president of the Fat Mems association,
of Jersey City, weighs 416 pounds.
Cougars have made their appearance in
large numbers lately in the Blue mountains
of Oregon.
A farmer in Delaware county, n Y, has
pork barrel that has been in constant use
La Porte, Ind, has tobboggan slide 1 600
feet long, said to be the longest one in the west
Freemasons throughout the United States
rejoice to know that the great List was a
member of the craft.
There are 500 people in the neighborhood
of Bennington, VT, engaged in gathering
spruce gum for three dealers in that place.
A fund is being raised to prevent the sale
at auction of Daniel O'Connell,s old home and
personal effects, which are in danger through
the bankruptcy of their present owner
France boasts of the Oldest old maid in the
world She is 100 years old and lives at
Auch- Her name is Mile. Benolte
A merchant at San Diego, Cal. recently
received am order from an interior village for
a Bible, Bowie knife and pack of cards
The German newspapers tell their readers
that France is ordering projectiles containing
a substance which makes blood poisoning the
result Of any wound received from them.
The business of exporting apples is increas-
ing. Two years ago 22o, 600 barrels were
shipped from the port Of New York; in 1855,
so, geo barrels, and last year, 349, 900 barrels
A young Buddhist priest from Japan has
has arrived In Ceylon to study southern
Buddhism, which IS regarded as the purer
system Of that faith, which counts so many
million believers in Asia
Sergeant s. Prentiss was the ideal orator OF
the south A large and excellent oil portrait,
presented by Judge Morris, of Natchez, has
been hung in the room Of the supreme court
ct louisiana, the field OF most of Mr.. Prem
tiss' oratorical triumphs
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The Porter's Ruined Voice.

"When l went on the road as a porter, y
said a natty looking negro, Il had a good
husky voice-a voice you could hear for
blocks around. Now listen to it. The loudest
tones are just about as clear as the mufiied
boom-boom of a bass drum in funeral pro-
cession. 1t is only about half of the time
that l can make myself heard, and it is all on
account of this porter business. You see,
my run is on sleeper, and have become Sc
accustomed to whispering, for fear of dis
turbing the passengers, that it has almost
ruined my voice. All old time porters are
similarly affected. Chicago Herald.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-02-09

new article is now seen hanging up in the
caboose of freight trains, as well as in freight
houses along many lines of road. 1t is a
leather case or bag, labeled "Fred's Pouch, =
and contains supply of the articles most
needed when a man is injured, such as court
plaster, bandages, splints, laudanum, arnica,
ether, lint, Irvine, thread and needles.
"Fredn was railroad man, who met with
terrible accident, and was obliged to lie
upon the floor of the caboose for some hours
with his wounds not dressed, and with moth
ing at hand to alleviate his intense sufferings
He could have been greatly relieved if there
had been on the train a few of the articles
now to be found in Fred's Pouch
On returning to his post, after long con
valescence, he induced his company to pro
vide freight trains and fright houses, all along
their lines, with a repository to which Fred.
grateful comrades promptly gave his owl
name-Yo Youths Companion.
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ABogus Grant Medal.

Something of a surprise has been oc-
casioned at Washington by the discovery
that the fine. large gold medal given to Gen.
Grant for distinguished services in the Mex
lean war, which is among the medals placed
in the National museum, is bogus. All the
Grant medals have been weighed by the
Smithsonian savants to test their value The
Mexican medal has specific gravity of only
z, when it should weigh about 16. 1t isn't
worth as much copper even, which weighs
9-Chicago Herald
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-02-09

In his lately published memoirs, Count
Beust tells this story of the brave but bluff
and gruff Marshal Pelissier, when the latter
was in England Sitting at dinner with the
queen, the hero of the Malaloff found him.
self in the immediate vicinity of her majesty,
and also of an open window. Hating
draughts, the old warrior turned to the ser
wants with a peremptory "Fernez les fene-
tres" The queen, who always humored him,
burst out laughing, and repeated the order in
English-Foreign Letter.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-02-09
GETTING wAeNER,s DRAGON READY.


The Prodigious Monster Which Will
Lash His Tail and Roar Mt Siegfried-
The dragon In its early stage Of develop
ment gives the unheroic idea Of an immense
hustle The body and tail are Of steel wire
wound in spiral shape and tapering of from
diameter of three feet at the shoulders TO
minimum at the tip of the tail thirty feet
away Over this framework a covering of
green silesia has been placed to afford n
chance for fastening on the scales These VIII
be some 5000 in number and are made OF
leather in strips five inches or SO In length and
about three inches in width. These overlap
each other and are tinged with iridescent col
ors which win give the beast glittering and
imposing aspect when he is completed and IN
working order beneath the electric light
The steel wires project about the shoulders
and front part of the beasts body, so that
when covered with scales the dragon has the
appearance of a horny monster. The head
and feet are of pa2ier maehe- The head is
some three feet in length and of about the
same depth, with a lower jaw which is ominous
in size The feet are three-toed and cover a
space two feet square. Yet head, feet and
body are together so light that they viii not
weigh over fifty pounds all told. The feet
are front feet, of course only two in number.
The rear part of the body runs on two cas-
| ters
A man win work the monster from the in
| side, his head extending up into huge hum
mock just behind the dragons head, his feet
| being encased in Wellington boots fitted into
| the feet of the animal. The manipulation viii
| be enabled by a system of wires to, turn the
| casters swing them around and at the same
! time control the head movements and the
\ lower jaw of his charge. Incandescent cleo
| trio lights form the dragons eyes, and the eye
| lids of these are also moved by the inhabitant
| within. Steampipes will be introduced at the
| tail of the dragon and at the proper moment
steam will be forced out of his nostrils.
| When the steam and the eyelids and the jaw
and the head are working at their hveliest,
men in the flies, with wires attached to the
dragons tail, viii make that part of the
| beast thresh the air in fury, while in the wings
mighty trumpet will sound forth the
| musical notes in which the dragon will ex-
! press musical sentiments appropriate to the
| occasion, at least until Siegfried shall put an
| end to the tumult. Mr. Bradwell is proud OF
his progeny and thinks his initial appearance
| viii be great success.-New York Tribune.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-02-09
AT HOME AND ABROAD.
People Whom the World Knows, and
Whom the Press Speaks

People Whom the World Knows, and OF
Whom the Press Speaks
Mrs. Jenny Lind Goldschmidt IS a next
neighbor of Marie Van Zandt at Cannes this
winter.
The Prince Of Wales VIII spend all this
month in foreign travel, largely IN Malta and
Greece.
Gen Thomas J. Brady, of star route no
toriety, is reported to be almost entirely
broken down by adversely.
Frank Cushing has taken his wife and sister
with him and has gone to explore the Zuni
ruins
Lord Tennvson's eyesight is failing him to
such an extent as to cause serious alarm
among his numerous circle of friends
Mr. Gladstone is so much overwhelmed
with gifts upon his birthday that he has
serious thought of adding TO his announce
ments next year: ''No gifts"
1t is said that the Count de Lesseps is get
ting to be a famous society man in Paris He
goes TO a dance or dinner every night
Ex-Governor John s. Routt, of Colorado,
an intimate friend of the late Gen Logan,
says the general was a too hearty eater for
his own good
New York, wears an enormous pair of rubber
boots in wet weather to avoid the expense Of
hiring a cab.
Senator Stanford has decided to erect In
Vulnerable small cottages TO be used as quar-
tiers by the students ct his new university,
the dormitory plan being too primitive, if not
| unhealthy.
Queen Margaret of Italy occupies her leis
ure hours in composing fables from the
dramatic legends of the Middle Ages, and
| lately read one to her intimate circle, among
whom was Signor Bought, who highly praised
| the fable and expressed wish that it should
be printed.
| Secretary Lamar was seized upon the othel
| day by the Emory college boys, at Oxford
| Miss. They told him that since he had taken
| Mrs Holt from Oxford he must pay a forfeit
| What they demanded was that he should give
| the Grafton at the next commencement there
The bridegroom had TO bow to the inevitable
| The empress of Austria has, according tc
a Vienna correspondent, given orders thai
| her well furnished stables, both in Vienna
Buda Pesth and Goedoelloe, are to be closed
| She has not mounted horse in some time
| and the doctors give little hope that she vii
ever mount one again.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-02-09

81 saw statement in a paper the other day
to the effect that the number of women
travellers is greater than that of the men in
the proportion of two to one This is great
mistake, and so obviously one that 1 wonder
anybody should ever have printed so mislead-
ing an item. The facts are exactly to the
contrary The number of men travellers is
twice as great as the number of women. In
day coaches you viii often find more women
than men, but in the smoking cars-and they
are generally full-few women are found
In the sleeping cars, too, the women are il
the minority. l have made careful observa
tions on this score, counting train after
train of passengers, and my conclusion j,
that for every woman traveller there are two
men. Chicago Herald.